A Big Week for News on GMOs, Pesticides, and the Movement for Public Health in Hawai‘i

This week, two noteworthy publications have critical bearing on the movement in Hawai‘i for accountability, information, and public health protections related to the large GMO and pesticide research operations across the islands:

The first, in the New England Journal of Medicine, entitled "GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health" questions the validity of previous scientific reviews on the safety of GMOs, pointing to a lack of consideration for the "overreliance on herbicides and, in particular, on glyphosate [which the] International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified . . . as a 'probable human carcinogen.'”